Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. Linus Torvalds quotes

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1. Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. ― Linus Torvalds

2. If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I’ve won. ― Linus Torvalds

3. In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved. ― Linus Torvalds

4. I am not a visionary. I’m an engineer. I’m happy with the people who are wandering around looking at the stars but I am looking at the ground and I want to fix the pothole before I fall in. ― Linus Torvalds

5. The Linux philosophy is ‘Laugh in the face of danger’. Oops. Wrong One. ‘Do it yourself’. Yes, that’s it. ― Linus Torvalds 

6. In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I’m talking to journalists I just say “programmer” or something like that. ― Linus Torvalds

7. What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt. ― Linus Torvalds

8. I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can. ― Linus Torvalds

9. I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended. ― Linus Torvalds

10. A computer is like air conditioning , it becomes useless when you open Windows. ― Linus Torvalds 

11. In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny. ― Linus Torvalds

12. Don’t hurry your code. Make sure it works well and is well designed. Don’t worry about timing. ― Linus Torvalds

13. Only wimps use tape backup. REAL men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it. ― Linus Torvalds

14. People who are doing things for fun do things the right way by themselves. ― Linus Torvalds

15. Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software. ― Linus Torvalds

16. Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program. ― Linus Torvalds

17. I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships. ― Linus Torvalds

18. In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the program works correctly or not seems to be secondary. ― Linus Torvalds

19. Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you’re screwed. ― Linus Torvalds

20. An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing. ― Linus Torvalds

21. The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses. — Malcolm X

22. Attempt to seduce the customer with the latest fashion, the finest design, and the most attentive service. —  Amancio Ortega

23. Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one. —  Cherry Nguyen

24. A beautiful day begins with a beautiful mindset. ― Cherry Nguyen

25. Blood, Sweat and Respect. First two you give, the last one you earn. — Dwayne Johnson